Species Glomericirrus amadai Yamaguti, 1937

Museums

Regional Maps

• Glomericirrus amadai Yamaguti, S. 1937. Trematodes from a Marine fish, Branchiostegus japonicus (Houttuyn). Studies on the Helminth Fauna of Japan. Part 17. Kyoto 15 pp., 8 figs. [12].

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: parasitic (host(s): Nemadactylus valenciennesi (Whitley, 1937) [CHEILODACTYLIDAE] Blue Morwong; Cyttus traversi Hutton, 1872 [CYTTIDAE] King Dory; Hoplostethus atlanticus Collett, 1889 [TRACHICHTHYIDAE] Orange Roughy).

General References

Bray, R.A. 1990. Hemiuridae (Digenea) from marine fishes of the southern Indian Ocean: Dinurinae, Elytrophallinae, Glomericirrinae and Plerurinae. Systematic Parasitology 17: 183-217 (Australian record)

Korotaeva, V.D. 1970. [Parasite fauna of two species of commercial fish of the family Cheilodactylidae in the region of Australia and New Zealand]. pp. 44-46 in Vodjanitskii, V.A. (ed.). Problems in Marine Parasitology. Kiev : Naukova Dumka. (Australian record)

Korotaeva, V.D. 1982. The fauna of trematodes in fishes of the order Zeiformes. Parazitologiya 16: 464-468 (Australian record)

Lester, R.J.G., Sewell, K.B., Barnes, A. & Evans, K. 1988. Stock discrimination of orange roughy, Hoplostethus atlanticus, by parasite analysis. Marine Biology 99: 137-143 (Australian record)

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